Rogue Affiliates: Repeat Offender Edition

Shape shifting beings are the stuff of legend but the BetRev family of rogues brings them to life. BetRev, Golden Matrix, Sierra Star, and Red Hot Revenue are just a few of the sites in this group that should be avoided.

In all fairness, their take on rogue life does, sometimes, involve actually paying their affiliate partners. The problem is that getting cash out of them is like opening a coconut with your bare hands. It can be done, but is it really worth the effort?

BetRev is a perfect example of why affiliates need to do their homework before signing up an operator.

10 Responses to Rogue Affiliates: Repeat Offender Edition

AussieDave March 4, 2013 at 4:07 pm

It’s a pity that Rewards Affiliate have been swept under the carpet here. While they still pay affiliates, they’ve been shown to be actively hoodwinking tagged players to their other gaming venues by contacting these players with straight links and other devious methods to get their claws into affiliate rightful income.

Being an affiliate myself since 2000 I have no other choice but to place 100% trust in the programs I partner.

Unethical practices to bend affiliates over is lot more obvious these days because the markets we can promote to have shrunk. Most casinos wont accept USA for starters. Then MGS have banned France, South Africa, Spain and others too. With less players to go round, more affiliates and casinos competing for these players, business 101 tells me that some of these programs are cooking the books to keep from going under.

With regard to Rewards Affiliates, or any online gaming program, if I send players and they sign-up, I shouldn’t have to worry that my tagged players are being hit with multiple straight link emails attempting to hoodwink them to join another of their casinos in the Casino Rewards Group. And I certainly shouldn’t have worry about my other tagged players which CR/RA have acquired from failed venues adsorbed into their Group either.

These players are tagged to me and Casino Rewards should not be marketing to these players with their straight links attempting to steal them from me to join another of their casinos so they don’t have to pay me commission. Or for that matter any other affiliate they use this dodgy marketing practice on.

So to market to my tagged players with straight links is not only despicable, it’s worse, it’s out right theft of my rightful commissions by Casino Rewards and Rewards Affiliates.

You nailed it right on the head when you say, “It’s all about trust.” When you’re doing business with people who may be on the other side of the planet, who you may never meet in person, that’s all you’ve really got.

I would venture to say that millions is ripped off from affiliates every year and I know that I have personally been ripped off for tens of thousands over the years, The key is finding a good outfit with even better software. Bookmaker.eu still owes us $3K they will never come off of. Rouge city.

I agree Brad. For the record, going on the players I’ve sent to Casino Rewards and the failed MGS properties they’ve bought out, over the years I’ve accumulated literally 1000′s upon 1000′s of players.

Based on a very conservative figure the Casino Rewards Group has stolen well over $250,000US from me and they (CR) continues to reap the benefits from these stolen players.

Every 6 months or so I may find $230 sent to me by RA/CR only because one of my referred players has deposited at the casino I referred them to.

The rest of the time they’ve been playing at the casinos they were unethically cross marketed to with straight links. Believe me I know how it feels to be cheated by crooks!

Hence the catalyst to my original comment.

Seeing I have a soap box, I’ll leave viewers with this passing food for thought. Casino Rewards now owns 29 online casinos. Albeit the gaming industry is a lucrative market BUT RA/CR have used crooked means to obtain these casinos by cross marketing to tagged players with straight links.

Why has this been allowed to be swept under the carpet? That is an affiliate program who has clearly stolen players and commissions from affiliates!

When we used to do more affiliate work, we do more paid campaigns now, there were always the companies we thought were hiding profits. The company Jusbet worked well for us until there was a shake up in management and then no longer received commissions. Another company that was very weak for us was Legends. They would get hundreds of clicks a month and claim not one signup. I have no proof that these guys did anything and I want to make that clear. But I found that they had weaknesses in the reporting and were not worth our time to work with those companies.

Player shaving is such a nasty business and, as you point out, very tough to prove. It’s just really unfortunate that so many companies take advantage of the distance and relative anonymity of the web to fleece their partners.

Hence given the Casino Rewards scam involves others too and the fact multiple examples of factual proof has been posted publicly on numerous affiliate gaming forums proving both CR and Rewards Affiliates have been stealing players. I’m left wondering why CAP has decided to swept these issues under the carpet too.

Both AGD and GPWA are obviously in cahoots with Casino Rewards/Rewards Affiliates but CAP? If this is a forum looking out for affiliates best interests, sweeping it under the carpet makes no sense.